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Physician-residency gap: advocates urge more state incentives and startup support for graduate medical education
Summary
Terry Coleman and other speakers urged the committee to pursue incentives and startup support to create more residency slots in Georgia, noting that many medical graduates leave the state for training and do not return; speakers cited per-slot startup costs and past state efforts to expand residency capacity.
Terry Coleman spoke to the Appropriations Subcommittee for Health about a statewide shortage of graduate medical education (residency) positions and the need for state incentives to create more residency slots.
Scope and problem: Coleman said that Georgia produces roughly 700 medical-school graduates but that 50% or more leave…
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